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	<title>Free Paul Jacob</title>
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		<title>Paul Jacob Wins CPAC&#8217;s Courage Under Fire Award</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2009/03/02/paul-jacob-wins-cpacs-courage-under-fire-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Jacob was presented Saturday with the &#8220;Charlton Heston Courage Under Fire Award&#8221; by the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Paul was honored by CPAC for his commitment to citizen-led reform and his recent fight to uphold initiative rights in Oklahoma, where he had been indicted for helping citizens gather signatures for a state spending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forbes comments on OK-3&#8217;s freedom</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2009/02/19/forbes-comments-on-ok-3s-freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2009/02/19/forbes-comments-on-ok-3s-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Forbes weighed in this week on the dismissal of charges against the Oklahoma 3. In his Forbes magazine column, Forbes applauded the dropping of charges but noted that those with political power still win when the system allows them to harass citizen activists and distract them from their missions.

Edmondson in all likelihood knew this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Jacob is FREE!</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2009/01/30/paul-jacob-is-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Citizens in Charge Foundation hosted a &#8220;Get Out of Jail, Free&#8221; party for Paul last night in Washington, D.C., celebrating last week&#8217;s dropping of all charges against the Oklahoma 3. For those of you who weren&#8217;t able to attend, we&#8217;d like to share some photos from the event, as well as some taken on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oklahoman gets behind Brogdon&#8217;s I&#038;R reform bills</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2009/01/27/oklahoman-gets-behind-brogdons-ir-reform-bills/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2009/01/27/oklahoman-gets-behind-brogdons-ir-reform-bills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a super editorial in yesterday&#8217;s The Oklahoman, giving Randy Brogdon&#8217;s I&#038;R-reform bills a nice push. (The piece also mentions Edmondson dropping the prosecution of the OK-3.)
Paul reminds us that we must keep in mind that we haven&#8217;t won a complete victory in Oklahoma until the initiative process is opened up.

What happens with Sen. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More positive comments at the Wall Street Journal</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2009/01/27/more-positive-comments-at-the-wall-street-journal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[John Fund did a short piece yesterday about Paul and the Oklahoma 3 for the Wall Street Journal Political Diary. On the dismissal of charges, Fund wrote:

Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson finally decided that his crusade to send three political activists to prison for trying to get an initiative on the state&#8217;s ballot is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where do we go from here?</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2009/01/26/where-do-we-go-from-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the charges have been dropped against the Oklahoma 3, Paul has vowed to continue his fight to protect and expand initiative rights and citizen control of government. His main vehicle for doing that is his organization, the Citizens in Charge Foundation. We hope you will want to join us in these goals. Visit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More good press coverage</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2009/01/23/more-good-press-coverage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The good press coverage continues to come in, following AG Drew Edmondson&#8217;s dismissal of all charges against the Oklahoma 3.
There was a very good piece at a high-traffic blog, Hot Air. In the post, Ed Morrissey writes:

The AG should have to answer for his Javert-like pursuit of obviously unconstitutional laws to persecute three people whose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OETA goes after Citizens in Charge web site, again!</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2009/01/23/oeta-goes-after-citizens-in-charge-web-site-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2009/01/23/oeta-goes-after-citizens-in-charge-web-site-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in November, on the day of Paul&#8217;s preliminary hearing, Paul released a statement to the media via email. Soon afterwards, a spam complaint from OETA (the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority) to Hostica caused the company to shut down the Citizens in Charge website. Well, they did it again!
When Paul&#8217;s statement in response to yesterday&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dismissal of charges brings much news coverage</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2009/01/23/dismissal-of-charges-brings-much-news-coverage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2009/01/23/dismissal-of-charges-brings-much-news-coverage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Numerous good articles have come out across the country since yesterday&#8217;s dismissal of all charges against the Oklahoma 3 by Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson.
Doug Bandow writes in the American Spectator:

This is good news for the movement, since Jacob has fought for term limits, budget and tax limitations, and educational choice in the past and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oklahoma-3 Are Free! AG Dismisses Charges</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2009/01/22/oklahoma-3-are-free-ag-dismisses-charges/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2009/01/22/oklahoma-3-are-free-ag-dismisses-charges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Free at last! Oklahoma AG Drew Edmondson today dropped all charges against the &#8220;Oklahoma 3&#8243;&#8212;Paul Jacob, Susan Johnson, and Rick Carpenter&#8212;in response to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeal&#8217;s refusal to approve his request for a rehearing.
Edmondson had asked the court to rehear the case in which the 10th Circuit judges invalidated Oklahoma&#8217;s residency requirement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10th Circuit refuses to hear Edmondson&#8217;s appeal</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2009/01/21/10th-circuit-refuses-to-hear-edmondsons-appeal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2009/01/21/10th-circuit-refuses-to-hear-edmondsons-appeal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit today denied Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson&#8217;s appeal of the ruling that struck down Oklahoma&#8217;s residency requirement as unconstitutional. Edmondson has accused the Oklahoma 3 of violating this requirement, leading to his pending indictment of the three.
In denying Edmondson&#8217;s request for rehearing, not a single judge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul speaks out in Nashville, joins fight to open process</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2009/01/21/paul-speaks-out-in-nashville-joins-fight-to-open-process/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2009/01/21/paul-speaks-out-in-nashville-joins-fight-to-open-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow is election day in Nashville, Tennessee, on an amendment to the Nashville Charter to give voters more say in their government.
The Amendment 2, known as the &#8220;Hear the People&#8221; measure, would lower signature requirements for city initiatives, make it easier to put measures on general elections so citizens don&#8217;t have to pay the cost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greenberg&#8217;s editorial gets picked up by The Oklahoman</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2009/01/07/greenbergs-editorial-gets-picked-up-by-the-oklahoman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2009/01/07/greenbergs-editorial-gets-picked-up-by-the-oklahoman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Greenberg&#8217;s wonderful editorial (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Jan. 4th) has been getting a lot of national play, being also distributed as his weekly syndicated column. But the battle must be fought in Oklahoma, so we were very pleased to see the column picked up today by The Oklahoman, the state&#8217;s largest newspaper, with the headline &#8220;State&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arkansas Democrat-Gazette publishes editorial in Paul&#8217;s defense</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2009/01/05/arkansas-democrat-gazette-publishes-editorial-in-pauls-defense/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2009/01/05/arkansas-democrat-gazette-publishes-editorial-in-pauls-defense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A super editorial appeared in yesterday&#8217;s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, defending Paul (and, more generally, the First Amendment) and calling AG Drew Edmondson a &#8220;zealot&#8221; and &#8220;a bully with considerable power, a high state office, and more ambition than respect for the rights of others.&#8221;
The Sunday lead editorial read in part:

This indictment has been hanging over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street Journal editorial questions Edmondson&#8217;s motives in continuing prosecution of OK-3</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/12/27/wall-street-journal-editorial-questions-edmondsons-motives-in-continuing-prosecution-of-ok-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/12/27/wall-street-journal-editorial-questions-edmondsons-motives-in-continuing-prosecution-of-ok-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal has again called Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson on the carpet for continuing his prosecution of the Oklahoma 3. In an editorial published December 26th, the WSJ notes that Edmondson is planning a run for governor and &#8220;is angling for support from public employee unions and other special interest groups that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eleven AGs ask Supreme Court to hear appeal</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/12/27/eleven-ags-ask-supreme-court-to-hear-appeal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/12/27/eleven-ags-ask-supreme-court-to-hear-appeal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Montana&#8217;s Attorney General has filed an amicus brief, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Arizona&#8217;s appeal in the case of Brewer v Nader, where the 9th circuit struck down Arizona&#8217;s ban on out-of-state circulators. The brief was co-signed by attorney generals from Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, South [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oklahoma AG will appeal 10th Circuit decision</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/12/23/oklahoma-ag-will-appeal-10th-circuit-decision/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/12/23/oklahoma-ag-will-appeal-10th-circuit-decision/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A spokesperson for the Oklahoma Attorney General&#8217;s office says the state will appeal this week&#8217;s 10th Circuit Court decision, which labeled Oklahoma&#8217;s residency requirement for petition circulators as unconstitutional, according to an article in the Journal Record. Charlie Price, Edmondson&#8217;s spokesman, said that the decision&#8217;s impact on the Oklahoma-3 case will be up to how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sen. Brogdon stands up for OK-3, again</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/12/22/sen-brogdon-stands-up-for-ok-3-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/12/22/sen-brogdon-stands-up-for-ok-3-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Our friend, Oklahoma State Sen. Randy Brogdon, defended the Oklahoma-3 and called on Attorney General Drew Edmondson to end their prosecution in his recent email newsletter. Brogdon also lauded the recently 10th Circuit Court ruling that called the residency requirement unconstitutional.

It&#8217;s a good feeling when one is proven right and it is especially good when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court ruling brings much news coverage</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/12/19/court-ruling-brings-much-news-coverage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/12/19/court-ruling-brings-much-news-coverage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s court ruling by the 10th Circuit Court has resulted in many good articles in the press. Some of the best articles appeared in the Edmond Sun, The Oklahoman, and on KTOK Radio.
The ruling also inspired coverage in a number of blogs, including Hot Air blog, Fort Hard Knox blog, Doug Bandow&#8217;s blog, and Ballot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An early Christmas gift</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/12/19/an-early-christmas-gift/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/12/19/an-early-christmas-gift/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We just got word that the federal 10th Circuit has struck down Oklahoma&#8217;s residency law by a vote of 3-0! That&#8217;s the third federal circuit court this year to unanimously overturn residency laws as unconstitutional.
This is very good news. While it should signal an end to the outrageous prosecution of the Oklahoma-3, we will have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul to speak at Rice University&#039;s Bill of Rights Dinner</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/12/11/paul-to-speak-at-rice-universitys-bill-of-rights-dinner/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/12/11/paul-to-speak-at-rice-universitys-bill-of-rights-dinner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul will be the keynote speaker this Saturday at the Bill of Rights Dinner, hosted by the Rice University Libertarians. The event is open to the public. Click this link for more information and directions to the event.
While in the Houston area, Paul will also be speaking to a property rights organization and meeting with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OK Political News Service condemns attempts to censor Paul</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/12/05/ok-political-news-service-condemns-attempts-to-censor-paul/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/12/05/ok-political-news-service-condemns-attempts-to-censor-paul/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were pleased to see this item at the  Oklahoma Political News Service, charging the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority with trying to censor Paul after the group reported one of our recent press releases as spam to our hosting provider. The report shut down the web site for Citizens in Charge for part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OCPA magazine urges Edmondson to free the Oklahoma 3</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/12/04/ocpa-magazine-urges-edmondson-to-free-the-oklahoma-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/12/04/ocpa-magazine-urges-edmondson-to-free-the-oklahoma-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a very nice piece by Patrick B. McGuigan in the December issue of Oklahoma Council of Political Affairs&#8217; monthly magazine, Perspectives, urging Attorney General Drew Edmondson to drop all charges against the Oklahoma 3.
In the article entitled &#8220;Edmondson Should Free &#8216;The Oklahoma Three,&#8217;&#8221; McGuigan writes:


Edmondson&#8217;s prosecution of these three activists is a stain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>test</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Push to Reform Oklahoma&#039;s Initiative Begins;Paul&#039;s Preliminary Hearing Continued into 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/12/01/push-to-reform-oklahomas-initiative-beginspauls-preliminary-hearing-continued-into-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/12/01/push-to-reform-oklahomas-initiative-beginspauls-preliminary-hearing-continued-into-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul was home for Thanksgiving after a big week in Oklahoma. In addition to attending his preliminary hearing along with Oklahoma Three co-defendants Rick Carpenter and Susan Johnson, Paul also met with Oklahomans working to restore the state&#8217;s voter initiative process.
Paul was well-received by the Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee (OCPAC) luncheon, where he spoke [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police hassle protesters at &#8220;Free the OK3&#8243; preliminary hearing rally</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/11/20/police-hassle-protesters-at-free-ok3-rally-at-preliminary-hearing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/11/20/police-hassle-protesters-at-free-ok3-rally-at-preliminary-hearing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We wanted to share this video with you from the &#8220;Free the OK 3&#8243; rally outside of the preliminary hearing on Tuesday. As the crowd was protesting the threat to free speech inherent in the Oklahoma 3 case, their own free speech was threatened. A policeman, saying he was just doing what he was told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul&#8217;s Statement, on the day of his preliminary hearing</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/11/18/pauls-statement-on-the-day-of-his-preliminary-hearing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/11/18/pauls-statement-on-the-day-of-his-preliminary-hearing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the statement Paul Jacob released this morning, as he attends his preliminary hearing:

Today, Attorney General Drew Edmondson continues his attack on the right to petition one’s government. We are innocent. We sought to understand and to fully comply with the letter of the law. Indeed, those running the petition drive were advised by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preliminary hearing moved back a day; Oklahoma City event on initiative process a big success</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/11/16/preliminary-hearing-moved-back-a-day-oklahoma-city-event-on-initiative-process-a-big-success/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/11/16/preliminary-hearing-moved-back-a-day-oklahoma-city-event-on-initiative-process-a-big-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/11/16/preliminary-hearing-moved-back-a-day-oklahoma-city-event-on-initiative-process-a-big-success/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The State of Oklahoma again postponed the OK 3&#8217;s reliminary hearing, but this time by only one day. Originally scheduled for Monday, it will take place on Tuesday, November 18th.
The &#8220;Reforming the Reform Process&#8221; event, held Saturday in Oklahoma City by Oklahomans for Initiative Rights, as the OK 3 was preparing for their preliminary hearing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National experts gather to discuss Oklahoma&#8217;s initiative process</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/11/14/national-experts-gather-to-discuss-oklahomas-initiative-process/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/11/14/national-experts-gather-to-discuss-oklahomas-initiative-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scholars, journalists, and political leaders&#8212;including two potential 2010 Republican candidates for Oklahoma governor&#8212;will meet tomorrow, Saturday, November 15, at the Renaissance Convention Center Hotel in downtown Oklahoma City to discuss ways to reform Oklahoma&#8217;s initiative process as part of a forum hosted by Oklahomans for Initiative Rights.
The conference, entitled &#8220;Reforming the Reform Process: How to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another federal circuit strikes down residency law&#8212;This time it&#8217;s the 6th</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/10/31/another-federal-circuit-strikes-down-residency-lawthis-time-its-the-6th/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/10/31/another-federal-circuit-strikes-down-residency-lawthis-time-its-the-6th/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another victory for those of us who believe residency laws violate the First Amendment!  
In a case brought by Ralph Nader, the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Oct. 29th that former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell violated Nader&#8217;s First Amendment rights by taking his name off the ballot in 2004 for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In third-party debate, Nader says Okla. is enforcing &#8220;Jim Crow laws&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/10/29/in-third-party-debate-nader-says-okla-is-enforcing-jim-crow-laws/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/10/29/in-third-party-debate-nader-says-okla-is-enforcing-jim-crow-laws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a recent Fair and Equal all-inclusive presidential debate broadcast on C-Span, Ralph Nader addressed the politically-motivated prosecution of the Oklahoma Three. When asked about laws that thwart ballot access for third party and independent candidates, and thus political speech, Nader pointed out that he had recently overturned Arizona&#8217;s residency law as unconstitutional (Nader v. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul featured in AIM video</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/09/29/paul-featured-in-aim-video/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/09/29/paul-featured-in-aim-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>10th Circuit to hear case against Oklahoma residency law</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/09/25/10th-circuit-to-hear-case-against-oklahoma-residency-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/09/25/10th-circuit-to-hear-case-against-oklahoma-residency-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, oral arguments will be heard in the case Yes on Term Limits v. Savage at the federal 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, Colorado. The case is a constitutional challenge to Oklahoma&#8217;s statute requiring that people who circulate a petition must be residents of Oklahoma. 
The Oklahoma 3&#8212;Paul, Rick Carpenter, and Susan Johnson&#8212;are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nader supports OK-3</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/09/19/nader-supports-ok-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/09/19/nader-supports-ok-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ralph Nader, the independent presidential candidate, told a Tulsa audience yesterday that Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson should drop the case against the Oklahoma 3&#8212;Paul Jacob, Rick Carpenter, and Susan Johnson&#8212;and go after the real crooks.
Nader made the comments during a campaign stop in Tulsa. Nader also accused Edmondson of being &#8220;part of a family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OK-3 preliminary hearing reset for November 17</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/08/25/ok-3-preliminary-hearing-re-set-for-november-17/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/08/25/ok-3-preliminary-hearing-re-set-for-november-17/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The long-drawn-out saga of &#8220;The Oklahoma Three&#8221; continues. The preliminary hearing for Rick Carpenter, Paul Jacob, and Susan Johnson has now been reset for Monday, November 17, in Oklahoma City.
This hearing was originally set for July 23, but was postponed by Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson only a week prior to that. The new date [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power-thirsty Edmondson looking for another fix</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/08/14/power-thirsty-edmondson-looking-for-another-fix/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/08/14/power-thirsty-edmondson-looking-for-another-fix/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We knew it was just a matter of time before Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson was going to seek another fix for his power-addiction. Today&#8217;s Tulsa World reports that Edmondson confirmed Wednesday &#8220;that he is getting closer to deciding to run for governor in 2010.&#8221;

&#8220;I am leaning more and more in that direction,&#8221; said Edmondson, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oklahoman Blasts Petition Harassment by OEA&#8212;as well as Petition by OEA</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/08/11/oklahoman-blasts-petition-harassment-by-oeaas-well-as-petition-by-oea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/08/11/oklahoman-blasts-petition-harassment-by-oeaas-well-as-petition-by-oea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oklahoma&#8217;s largest newspaper blasted the Oklahoma Education Association in a Sunday editorial that called out the union for the nasty, undemocratic tactics the union used against the 2005 TABOR initiative. That&#8217;s the petition drive the Oklahoma 3&#8212;Paul, Rick Carpenter, and Susan Johnson&#8212;worked on, which riled the state&#8217;s political establishment and now provides pretext for Oklahoma [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Review Online column sees arrest of OK-3 as part of attacks on initiative process</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/08/01/national-review-online-column-sees-arrest-of-ok-3-as-part-of-attacks-on-initiative-process/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/08/01/national-review-online-column-sees-arrest-of-ok-3-as-part-of-attacks-on-initiative-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/08/01/national-review-online-column-sees-arrest-of-ok-3-as-part-of-attacks-on-initiative-process/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Roger Clegg published a nice piece about BAMN and other leftist attacks on the initiative process at National Review Online the other day.
BAMN&#8212;which stands for By Any Means Necessary&#8212;is one of the most abrasive leftist organizations, harassing and intimidating citizens petitioning to end racial and gender preferences. The group has also filed a number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Graves injustice: OK-3 judge removed from case</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/07/31/ok-3-judge-removed-from-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/07/31/ok-3-judge-removed-from-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oklahoma Political News Service is reporting on tips from courthouse insiders that suggest Oklahoma City Judge Bill Graves may have been removed from the Oklahoma County criminal docket specifically to remove him from the case of the Oklahoma 3, which he has been assigned.
Graves has a reputation as a constitutionalist and a conservative, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You can&#8217;t handle the truth</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/07/30/you-cant-handle-the-truth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/07/30/you-cant-handle-the-truth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if to provide a fuzzy journalistic counterpoint to John Fund&#8217;s clear and on-point Wall Street Journal article on &#8220;The Far Left&#8217;s War on Direct Democracy,&#8221; now we have Dan Morain and Nicholas Riccardi in the Los Angeles Times expatiating, according to the article’s headline, on how the &#8220;GOP [is] suffering from a lack of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WSJ&#8217;s Fund on the far left&#8217;s war on direct democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/07/26/wsjs-fund-on-the-far-lefts-war-on-direct-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/07/26/wsjs-fund-on-the-far-lefts-war-on-direct-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Fund has an article in the July 26 Wall Street Journal about the low-down dirty rotten tactics of the opponents of initiative rights that at least nominally accorded the citizens of 24 states:

But more power to ordinary people remains unpopular in some quarters, and nothing illustrates the war on the initiative more than the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New preliminary hearing schedule to be set</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/07/23/new-preliminary-hearing-schedule-to-be-set/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Officials from the Oklahoma Attorney General&#8217;s office have scheduled an August 22, 2008, meeting with Paul Jacob&#8217;s attorney to reschedule the July 23 preliminary hearing that was postponed. The new hearing will probably be scheduled in September. We&#8217;ll announce the new date as soon as we have one.
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		<title>Support Us</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/07/21/support-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>OK 3&#8217;s preliminary hearing postponed at AG&#8217;s request</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/07/17/ok-3s-preliminary-hearing-postponed-at-ags-request/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oklahoma Attorney General has asked the court for a continuance to postpone the preliminary hearing for Paul Jacob, Susan Johnson, and Rick Carpenter, originally scheduled for next Wednesday, July 23 in Oklahoma City. A new date for the hearing has not yet been set.
&#8220;This will be a long fight. Now a little longer,&#8221; Paul [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9th Circuit Court strikes down residency requirements for petitioners</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/07/09/9th-circuit-court-strikes-down-residency-requirements-for-petitioners/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/07/09/9th-circuit-court-strikes-down-residency-requirements-for-petitioners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued its ruling today on Nader v. Brewer, 06-16251, striking down Arizona&#8217;s residency requirement for petition circulators, as well as its early deadline for submitting signatures for independent presidential candidates.
The decision came in a 3-0 vote and struck down the ban on out-of-state circulators based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preliminary hearing for OK3 is July 23</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/07/08/preliminary-hearing-for-ok3-is-july-23/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/07/08/preliminary-hearing-for-ok3-is-july-23/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 23, the Oklahoma Three—Paul and his two co-defendants, Rick Carpenter and Susan Johnson—will have a preliminary hearing in Oklahoma City. At the hearing, the government must establish enough evidence to convince a judge to schedule a trial.
Theoretically, at least. In reality, it is rare for a judge to dismiss a case at this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Independence Day message from Paul Jacob</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/07/04/an-independence-day-message-from-paul-jacob/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/07/04/an-independence-day-message-from-paul-jacob/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today isn&#8217;t just July 4th; it is Independence Day. It celebrates the rhetorical shot heard &#8217;round the world: the Declaration of Independence. The most powerful statement for individual liberties and against arbitrary government power in the history of the world.
And it matters still today, 232 years later. Because those words led to a nation in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court grants preliminary relief from Ohio residency requirement</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/06/17/court-grants-preliminary-relief-from-ohio-residency-requirement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/06/17/court-grants-preliminary-relief-from-ohio-residency-requirement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ballot-access.org notes the encouraging development in an Ohio case, Moore v. Brunner, about residency requirements for petitioners. A Socialist Party candidate named Brian Moore who is seeking to run as an independent candidate in Ohio sought relief against a state law that requires petition circulators to be residents of Ohio and registered to vote in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Over-the-top attempt</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/06/17/over-the-top-attempt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We doubt there are any fair-and-balanced attempts to criminalize signature-gathering for ballot petitions, but we still like NewAmerica.net&#8217;s blog post, commenting on one of our own posts:
The leader of the term limits movement and two other organizers of a petition drive [Paul Jacob, Susan Johnson, and Rick Carpenter] in Oklahoma are under state indictment there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview on Boiling Point Radio</title>
		<link>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/06/09/interview-on-boiling-point-radio/</link>
		<comments>http://www.freepauljacob.com/2008/06/09/interview-on-boiling-point-radio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul was interviewed at length recently on The Boiling Point radio show at the University of Chicago. Paul discussed his situation in Oklahoma, as well as the growing attacks on the initiative and referendum process across the United States. You can view the full interview, in three parts, by clicking on the links below.
Part 1:

Part [...]]]></description>
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